quicksand
Example Sentences
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We’re sinking into a quicksand of tiny, dumb administrative tasks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
I had this idea 15 years ago, and the idea that everything was changing and it was quicksand under our feet was a little less prevalent back then.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025
For the next eight years, as if submerging into quicksand, I sank deeper into debt.
From Salon • May 11, 2025
Newcastle could, and should, have added more as they simply over-powered a Liverpool team who looked like they were running in quicksand, this loss compounding the midweek Champions League exit against PSG on penalties.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2025
Just beneath the crust lay a twenty-foot stratum of the same quicksand Chicago builders always confronted, only now it was ice cold and a torment to workers.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
